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Sunday, August 14, 2016

And George Washington Called Providence "She" and "It"

This is an interesting article -- an op-ed, which by their nature are slanted -- from the NYT on the gender of the God of Abraham. Quoted below is what the piece concludes:

Counter to everything we grew up believing, the God of Israel — the God
of the three monotheistic, Abrahamic religions to which fully half the
people on the planet today belong — was understood by its earliest
worshipers to be a dual-gendered deity.

Along the way the rabbi who authored the piece uses original Hebrew to make his case. I don't read Hebrew. If any readers do, I wonder, are his translations accurate?